Our country has become a lot more complicated than it was in the days of our founding fathers.  We have to have experienced politicians that know their way around the government, and that's just not something you can learn in a couple of years.  Your average Congressman right now spends two years just getting up to speed.  To me, it's almost a miracle that Obama was able to get so much legislation passed with so many sponsors!

The only alternative would be to give our bureaucrats more power as they do in the British government.   But bureaucrats are harder to get rid of when we want to.

I say level the campaign playing field and get corporate money completely out of the process.  Make scrambling for campaign money completely unnecessary.

It's corporate influence on the power structure that is the greatest danger, not the "elitism" brought about by simple longevity.

by EveningStarNM on 03/20/2008 11:22:20 AM EST

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